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Is anyone else not seeing a bunch of the companies' logos? It looks like I get an HTTP header redirect to a 1x1 PNG:

http://i.imgur.com/NFjIedl.png

http://i.imgur.com/yRwP4q1.png

It can't be a transparent proxy interfering because it's an HTTPS connection...

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Chances are you have an extension/plugin to block social media scripts or the like. They're missing on my Chrome browser (Privacy Badger, Ghostery, Disconnect, HTTPS Everywhere, etc) but the vanilla Safari (no plugins) shows them fine.

This is correct. I uploaded the images and used names like facebook.png, which sometimes produces false positives on those extensions. I can confirm they're being served from eff.org and are not doing any tracking.

Excellent.

This is ironic: The EFF's report about privacy protections offered by companies is published on a page with tracking beacons from websites with well-deserved terrible privacy reputations.

I'm using Ghostery and I'm not seeing any off-site tracking beacons on the eff.org page (they have a locally hosted PiWik analytics install but that's it).

If you look upthread, you can see these are probably false positives due to the image names of the corporate logos (see the note from 'thisisparker).

The EFF site tries to be very careful about embeds and not serve scripts or images from third-party sites. For example, YouTube embeds there use youtube-nocookie.com with a click-to-load wrapper so that users have to affirmatively choose to interact with the YouTube servers. That's described at

https://www.eff.org/pages/mytube-limit-privacy-risks-embedde...

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